Hi Frey & Theo,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m emailing you because I’m working on resolving
conflicts caused by PAUSE now considering package names case insensitively.
This has left us with some situations where two or more people are owners of
namespaces previously considered distinct, and now considered the same.
Frey has ownership of MCrypt (last released in 2000), and Theo has ownership of
Mcrypt (last released in 2007). These are now considered the same from a
permissions perspective, resulting in a conflict, which wouldn’t let anyone
release a new version.
There are at least ways we can resolve this:
1. One of you could rename this to Crypt::MCrypt or similar
2. I noticed that MCrypt won’t install under any recent versions of Perl:
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=MCrypt
So maybe the quickest solution would be to delete MCrypt from CPAN,
if Frey is ok with that? I can do that for you.
How would you like to proceed?
PAUSE no longer lets situations like this occur, so I’m working on resolving
the existing cases.
Cheers,
Neil
